HEARSE CASTLEFOR THIS VALLEY DEAD HEAD, COLLECTING VINTAGE FUNERAL MEMORABILIA IS A MAJOR UNDERTAKING

Prices vary widely, depending on who's buying what from whom. While the skeleton-coffin combo reportedly set Kvetko back a hefty $500, one woman was so eager to get a "cursed" Iranian finger casket off her hands that she let the collector have it for a mere $9.

Right now, Kvetko is hot on the trail of one of the very few items missing from his museum of the macabre.

"I have a friend whose mom is a nurse, and I asked if her mom could put me on the track of a body bag," reports Kvetko. "When my friend came back, she said her mom said if I really wanted a body bag, I'd have to earn one."
And what happens on the inevitable day he earns one the hard way?
"I don't want to be buried or cremated," he says firmly. "I want to be mummified." No bones about it.